Miyata
KOGA ( Koga ) is a Dutch manufacturer of bicycles in the upper price class. The company is based Heerenveen. The company is a subsidiary of Accell Group. By 2010, were performed as a brand name " Koga -Miyata ". Since the collaboration with the frame builder Miyata was now finished, reduced to the brand name on the well-known in the parlance company names KOGA.
History
The company was founded in 1974 by Koga Andries Gaastra, the son of the founder of the traditional brand Batavus; the name is a portmanteau of his surname and maiden name of his wife, Kowallik. Koga initially sold only frame from 1976 made one complete wheel with the framework of the renowned Japanese bicycle maker Miyata Kōgyō KK ( the gunsmith Eisuke Miyata 1892 was the first Japanese bike with diamond frame made ). Today, the company designs and manufactures racing and touring bicycles, trekking and mountain bikes, city and folding bikes as well as tandems. As Frame Material chrome molybdenum steel, aluminum and carbon are used.
Koga sees itself as a bicycle manufacturer of the highest quality. For all the bikes frame geometries and components used are precisely adapted to the purpose. If the required components are not present on the market, own jointly with suppliers Koga parts are often developed. An often custom property is the frame tube thickness, which varies depending on the requirement. The prices for the respective top models in the different types are not rare in over 3,000 euros. The entry in Koga is 1000 euros per frame.
Koga sold the bicycles only through the dealer. Some of them vacate the brand a lot of extra space and have a so-called Koga Quality Stores furnishings, of which there are three in Germany. The bikes are mainly sold in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Other important export countries are Japan and South Korea.
The manufacturer support as sponsor and supplier of several cycling teams in the Netherlands and Germany. inter alia, the Koga Cycling Team.
The Koga B. V. part - as well as the manufacturer Hercules, Batavus and Sparta and more - the listed Dutch Accell Group. The total turnover of 538 million euros was Accell 2008.